Fourth: Myths and Legends, backdated to Valentine's Evening (Video; un: Caster)

[colchismagecraft]

[There were advantages and disadvantages to using the money she'd gotten from carrying out Morgana's suspicious request in order to find a larger place to stay. On one hand, she had more space to keep her things and it didn't feel so cramped - she might even have room for a potion-brewing workshop at some point. On the other hand, yes, she had more space to herself, but it was Valentine's Day.

And she was here by herself, without the one person she wanted to spend it with.

After spending a week or so chasing around a man from her world who was responsible for her demise.

Desperate for something to take her mind off all of it, she took to the network to try and find a distraction.

Caster can be seen sitting in a darkened room, face and body mostly hidden by the shadows of her cloak. You know, because that totally didn't look ominous.]

For those who haven't met me yet- I am known as Caster. A pleasure.

As the people who've been brought here are from many different worlds, I can't help but be a little curious. Tell me, what myths and legends are the most well known, where you're from? What about those you personally find the most interesting?

I'd say that the Greek Myths are my personal area of interest, but... picking a favourite would be difficult.

[A hint to who she was, perhaps, but it wasn't as if she'd actually told many people she was a heroic spirit from myth - so it should be a safe comment.]

Either way, feel free to share. I'm curious to know who's myths overlap with the ones I know, as well as learn a little about other people's worlds.

[There was a short pause, before a dark smirk comes into her face. She may have been just a little bitter about the whole cupid arrow nonsense.]

...Ah, and Archer? If you're watching this, I will make you regret humiliating me with those arrows of yours-!

Comments

[sulit]

Oh, we plan to kill one. You don't mess with our crew and get away with it. And they seem like a terrible deity, anyway.

⚔️💀😭
⚔️💋💔

Consider your terrible goddess added to the list~

As for who was controlling the skeletons... It's complicated? They died on the island we visited, which had a temple dedicated to this god. There was a lot of necromantic energy suffuse through the island, so they were reanimated automatically--but the only reason they died in the first place was because this god manipulated their captain into killing them.

I don't think it could control them directly, but it was definitely responsible for them being the way that they were.

[colchismagecraft]

she is terrible
perfect 🔥🔥🔥

that god sounds pretty awful as well to be honest
but puppeting people to fight for you has its uses

[sulit]

I think most death gods are pretty awful, even when they're not mind controlling people.

Do you do that sort of thing? Puppeting people? Other than skeletons, I mean.

[colchismagecraft]

at least they don't tend to toy with people for fun

i was in a war between magi at home
puppeting people was one tactic i resorted to in order to get an upper hand

[sulit]

Since when? I thought that was normally godly behavior. (Exceptions withstanding, of course. 🌙🧭)

Hmm. Next question: Do you do that often, then? Or is magically manipulating people's actions a sometimes thing? Or a rarely?

On a scale of 1 to 5, how frequently would you say you control people? 1 being about once a year, and 5 being about once a week.

[colchismagecraft]

it is normal godly behaviour
exceptions withstanding indeed 🧙‍♀️🔮🌃💫

it feels a little strange referring to her with those symbols

[Was it disrespectful to describe her Goddess with emojis? She's not entirely sure.]

in my lifetime i didn't make a habit of calling on magic like that
during the war itself it proved itself rather useful

[So something like a 0.5 usually and a 6 during a war, by Klaudia's scale.]

[sulit]

They're good symbols! She should be proud of them!

Hmm. Interesting. Good to know!

Is that a thing you can do here? I don't think you've mentioned which kind of magic you're capable of.

[And if she did, then Klaudia's already forgotten.]

[colchismagecraft]

i would hope so

not here not yet
dark magic
and you?

[sulit]

Alchemy. I hadn't considered this a school of magic before, but it's rather a lot like Transmutation magic that I'm used to.

I guess if I have to be saddled with having only *one* kind of magic, then this is a pretty good one!

What's yours like? What can you do with it so far?

[colchismagecraft]

alchemy hm? the potion brewing side of that seems useful
transmutation?
changing things from one form to another?

mostly curses
i miss being able to fly

[sulit]

I haven't tried potion brewing just yet... It never seemed particularly useful to me. My captain dabbled in it a bit, I think, but mostly ones of a medicinal nature.

To answer your question: Transmutation is the school of magic that involved altering the nature of things. Not just from one physical form to another, but larger or faster, more graceful or charismatic. It could also control the existing elements, grant levitation or flight, disintegrate or regenerate matter, or place a creature into suspended animation. Incredibly powerful transmuters could even turn objects into sentient, autonomous creatures or stop time itself.

So far, alchemy seems to be a limited version of only the core tenets of transmutation magic, but I'm still working with it.

[colchismagecraft]

you can do a lot with potion brewing if you know how to use it properly
although medicinal potions are a little more difficult than poisons in my experience

i see
it sounds as if in your world that one school of magic covers a very wide range of abilities
in mine magecraft is a little more granular in how it defines itself
for example projection magic to create or change things
or reinforcement to make them or people more powerful
creating boundary fields to affect the conditions and properties within an area

that sort of thing

but yes from what you've said it sounds as if alchemy encompasses a small part of that